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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-67
by Catherine Hall.
Polity, 556 pp., £60, April 2002,0 7456 1820 0 Show More
by Catherine Hall.
Polity, 556 pp., £60, April 2002,
“... Africa and Asia don’t seem quite as bad. The perplexingly affirmative work of Niall Ferguson and David Armitage scants, if it doesn’t actually trivialise, the suffering and dispossession brought by empire to its victims. More is said now about the modernising advantages the empires brought, and about the security and order they maintained. There is far ... ”